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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | imaginima) Illinois has changed its Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) to dramatically limit the financial penalties faced by companies that illegally obtain or sell biometric identifiers such as eye scans, face scans, fingerprints, and voiceprints.…
China plans to launch more than 100 satellites for its new “constellation” this year and thousands more by the end of the decade.
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Enlarge / With or without the “AI,” AMD’s new laptop processors are pretty good. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) For all the noise about neural processing units (NPUs) and the generative AI capabilities of new and upcoming chips, NPUs don’t yet do…
Enlarge / It’s.a tale as old as, well, time. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Google’s story over the last two decades has been a tale as old as time: enshittification for growth. The once-beloved startup—with its unofficial “Don’t Be Evil” motto—has instead…
Enlarge (credit: MirageC | Moment) Doesn’t CrowdStrike have more important things to do right now than try to take down a parody site? That’s what IT consultant David Senk wondered when CrowdStrike sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice…
Enlarge / This is the Figure 02, a new humanoid robot that recently tried its hand(s) at assembling BMW chassis in South Carolina. (credit: BMW) Robots have been working in car factories for decades now, starting with machines performing some…
Neuroscientist Christof Koch’s new book discusses how information integration in the brain leads to consciousness and whether AI will ever be self-aware.
A study of women with borderline personality disorder in Germany found that they experience heightened dissociative symptoms in sexual situations. Compared to healthy women, this increase was most pronounced in symptoms of depersonalization and derealization. The findings were published in…
Enlarge / Lamborghini has added a plug-in hybrid powertrain to the Urus SUV. (credit: Lamborghini) Lamborghini has now launched its second plug-in hybrid. The first was the V-12-powered Revuelto, a $600,000 supercar with 1,001 hp (746 kW), all-wheel drive, and…
